Ronald Lee (1934[1][2] – January 25, 2020[3]) was a Romani Canadian writer, linguist, professor, folk musician, and activist.

[2] In 1939, his family went to Great Britain on a visit but were unable to return to Canada for several years because of the outbreak of World War II.

When Lee was 18, he started to travel with a Kalderash family from Europe and worked on plating mixing bowls and doing other smithing arts and odd jobs.

He went with Yul Brynner, Ian Hancock and John Tene to the United Nations on July 5, 1978 to present a Romani petition asking for NGO status.

In 1997, he initiated and was one of the founders of Roma Community and Advocacy Centre[6] (based in Toronto) and the Western Canadian Romani Alliance, in Vancouver, in 1998.